Participants in Monday afternoon’s faculty meeting discussed and approved undergraduate curriculum changes in the Wilson School and the Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Economics, History, Philosophy, Politics and Psychology.
The police departments in the Borough and Township are pushing back against plans to reduce the size of their combined force as a result of the merger between the municipalities to take place next January.
President Shirley Tilghman has endorsed the recommendations made by the Committee on Freshmen Rush Policy, the University announced Tuesday morning. Accordingly, the recommendations by the committee — the suspension of any freshman who affiliates with a fraternity or sorority or of any sophomore, junior or senior who conducts a form of freshman rush — will be implemented effective Sept. 1.
Toni Morrison, a professor of humanities at the University for 17 years, received a 2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama last Thursday. This is the highest honor that a United States civilian can receive.
When Mick Hagen was a freshman at the University six years ago, he was a member of BodyHype dance company, Business Today and the USG and played club basketball.In many ways, he was the typical involved college student. Then suddenly, just one year into his college career, he left to pursue his startup, Zinch.com.
The end of selective admission at the Wilson School raises questions as to what students who fail to get accepted to the School ultimately study and how the reforms will affect the departments which cater to similar intellectual interests, such as politics, economics and history.
Though the sociology department saw a 47 percent drop in the number of sophomore sign-ins this year, departmental representative Paul Willis said he was not concerned by the decrease. After the April 24 deadline for sophomore sign-ins, 28 members of the Class of 2014 had signed into the department, compared to the 53 students in the Class of 2013 and the 62 students in the Class of 2012 who signed in.
African American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80 will head to trial in New York today after an arrest in October for an act of planned civil disobedience in front of a Harlem police station. West will be joined in the courtroom by 21 other protestors with whom West was arrested at the time.
One of the many challenges presented by consolidation was which form of government the joint municipality should choose. In February 2011, the Municipal Consolidation Subcommittee of the Transition Task Force — the entity responsible for ensuring that the consolidation of the two municipalities occurs smoothly — unanimously recommended that the joint Princeton municipality adopt the borough government structure.
Nathaniel Fleming ’12 has been selected as this year’s valedictorian and Liz Butterworth ’12 will serve as Latin salutatorian, the University announced at Monday’s faculty meeting following the faculty’s approval of the students’ nominations by the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing.
Nine undergraduates have been awarded the 2012 Spirit of Princeton Award, given annually to undergraduates whose positive contributions to the University community may have previously gone unrecognized. The award is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.
At its meeting on Sunday night, the USG discussed its progress on five projects that members said would improve academic feedback at the University. This endeavor has been collectively dubbed the “Improving Academic Feedback Project.”
Against the backdrop of rising student interest in an Asian-American studies program, students interested in the field will have a chance to pursue their interests in a new course next fall.Taught by English professor Anne Cheng, ENG 224: Asian-American Law, Bodies and the Everyday will examine the role of Asian-Americans in American constitutional history, focusing on both specific court cases and how the law affects everyday life. Second Circuit Court of Appeals judge Denny Chin ’75 will attend many of the course’s meetings and help Cheng teach the course.
Former dean of the college Nancy Malkiel will deliver a public lecture on Tuesday at Dartmouth as part of the College’s “Leading Voices in Higher Education” speaker series.
The sociology department experienced a significant drop in the number of declared concentrators between last year and this year, the most dramatic yearly change when most departments reported similar numbers of sign-ins compared with those of last year.While the growth of some departments may be due to the larger number of admitted students in the sophomore and junior classes, a department-by-department breakdown of the numbers nevertheless reveals a few shifts in student interest.
This November, rather than electing separate mayors of the Borough and the Township, voters will elect a single person to lead the new municipality. The impending consolidation of the Borough and Township next January has heightened the importance of the upcoming mayoral election.The new mayor will play a large role in shaping the future of the new Princeton, especially in influencing the ever-evolving and often contentious relationship between the town and the University.
"Anyone who’s been in the role of patient can attest to the way it changes how you see yourself,” Suleika Jaouad ’10 wrote in a recent column published in The New York Times.Jaouad, a 23-year-old writer, was diagnosed with leukemia a year ago, only shortly after graduating from the University. In between undergoing rounds of chemotherapy and working toward recovery, Jaouad writes a regular column in The Times, and previously wrote for The Huffington Post, about her life with cancer.
A week after the student body voted in favor of greater transparency in the University’s financial investments, a Daily Princetonian review of University tax filings shows that as recently as July 2009 the University held a financial account within the country of Pakistan.The fund had a maximum value of $86,000, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said in an email. He explained that the account was set up by an external fund manager, rather than through a direct investment decision by the Princeton University Investment Company.
While working for the Obama campaign in 2008, Tim Hwang ’14 noted that many federal policies failed to include the voices of American youth. With a group of likeminded college students Hwang discussed the creation of an organization that would start a youth lobby in Washington, D.C., to better represent students in the nation’s capital.
In March 2010, President Shirley Tilghman gave a lecture at the University called “The Meaning of Race in the Post-Genome Era.” A dinner conversation she had with history and Wilson School professor Keith Wailoo right before the lecture revealed that the two shared similar interests about the interplay of modern genetics and the public sphere.Next semester, the two will co-teach WWS 354: Modern Genetics and Public Policy, a Monday evening seminar that will explore topics ranging from eugenics to FDA regulations, according to the course description.
